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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"New rhetoric"”.
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On New Rhetoric, John Henry Newman and the Language of Metaphors: Implications for Branding Higher Education
This project interprets how John Henry Newman's (1801-1890) system of thought informs the philosophical and theoretical grounds for rhetorical praxis in the marketplace. His seminal lessons in "An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent"(1870) and "The Idea of a University" (1873 ed.) demonstrate the …
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Annotation in nurse education : towards a hermeneutic understanding
… sense of discourse. The second research theme, “rhetoric” explores Ricoeur’s new rhetoric in the form of temporal action called mimesis1-3. The third research theme called “individualism” explores social justice, negotiating the political labyrinth, and the annotator’s sense of moral autonomy to …
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Hacks/Müller: Zur Selbstbestimmung der DDR-Dramatik in Bezug auf die literarische Tradition und sozialistische Gegenwart
… developed by Kenneth Burke (particularly his New Rhetoric approach presented in The philosophy of literary form), Raymond Williams (including his cultural materialism), as well as Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (Critical Theory). Furthermore, the dissertation deals with the idea of …
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The New Feminine Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft, Austen, and the Forms of Romantic-Era Feminism
… remained prominent in both the literature and rhetoric of the time. In tracing the development of the "New Rhetoric," a rhetorical movement that aimed to accommodate new principles of the Enlightenment, I focus in part on the rhetorical battle between Edmund Burke, with his Reflections on the …
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The new disability rhetoric: Chaim Perelman and the argument for justice in disability studies
… of Chaim Perelman's theories of argument, rhetoric, and justice to the burgeoning field of disability studies. Perelman's most commonly-known text, The New Rhetoric, has drawn praise for the ambition demonstrated in its extensive analysis of the techniques of argument as well as criticism …
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Style in Bossuet's 1662 Lenten Sermons: A Method of Rhetorical Analysis
"Rhetoricians have often considered the close connection between argumentation and figures of speech. One of the most perceptive accounts of this connection occurs in Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric (1958), in which the authors note the inseparability between style and …
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Passwords to power: a public rationale for expert influence on central government policy-making: British scientists and economists. c.1900-c.1925
… aim of the study is to explore and compare the rhetoric produced for public consumption by British scientists and economists in the period from c. 1900 to c. 1925, which was aimed at securing executive influence over government policy-making for these expert groups. I argue that members of each …
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Communication in the Ruins: Walker Percy and the Art of Symbolic Mediation
… structuralism, poststructuralism, and the New Rhetoric. Several voices within the field of communication also drew upon Percy’s work in topic areas such as rhetoric, communication ethics, philosophy of communication, media ecology, and communication pedagogy. The final section of the first …
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From Surviving to Metaviving: A New Rhetorical Formation in Metastatic Breast Cancer Patient Discourse
… sentence to a potentially chronic disease. War rhetoric, of which the survivor trope is a part, has been the primary mechanism by which healthcare defines the cancer experience. Using Celeste Condit's framework of rhetorical formations, I question if a new rhetoric of breast cancer is indeed …
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'Scarecrows of Chivalry': The Literature of Post -Imperial English Masculinity
… making visible the necessary entanglement of new-fangled masculinity and national tradition. Finally, the early works of A.S Byatt and Margaret Drabble telescope the literary and masculine struggle of the new post-war Englishman from the perspective of a female outsider whose self-conscious …
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Ecological City Design and Planning: How China Expands Urban Ecology, Institutional Learning, and Cultural Shifts through the Evolving Eco-Developments
… locally initiated developments—Zhengdong New District and Nanhu Eco-City. A deep dive into the vicissitudes of the selected eco-developments reveals their limited eco-environmental effects and social influences constrained by the scale of these privileged developmental jurisdictions. …
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Forms of Global Health
… as a key example. Scholarship in history and rhetoric of the period has described the formation of modern disciplines as a separation of scientific and literary textual traditions, predicated on the rise of distinct genres for the production of scientific knowledge, namely the scientific …
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História de Portugal de Fernão de Oliveira: edição semidiplomática e análise da retórica nos topônimos de Portugal
… around 1581, and how this author uses the rhetorical discourse from the onomastic lexicon. To do so, we seek support in specific theoretical guidelines: theory of enunciation, under the approach of Benveniste (2005; 2006), Bakhtin (2003) and Bakhtin [Voloshinov] (2004 [1929]), which place …
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Genre, evaluation, and persuasion in journalistic opinion writing: a study of Pakistani English-language editorials on the killing of Osama Bin Laden
… thesis explores how Pakistan’s English-language newspaper editorials used rhetorical and evaluative resources to position readers in favour of arguments advanced in response to the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US military forces. The decision to select the editorials was made due to a range of …
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Defenders of the Faith? Religion and Right-wing Populism in Germany, France and the United States in the 21st Century
… From the carrying of crosses at rallies to a new rhetoric centred on the defence of “the Judeo-Christian West”, right-wing populist movements on both sides of the Atlantic have made increasing use of Christian symbols and language. This thesis seeks to comprehend this dynamic by exploring the …
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Sighting Circus: Perceptions of circus phenomena investigated through diverse bodies
… missing voices and histories and to set in place new approaches to perceiving circus phenomena. In The Political Body, the phenomenon of embodied protest is identified and explored in relation to contemporary circus works. The importance of the engaged spectator is identified in determining …